September is always a busy month at Boulder City High School.
Opinion
That first day I feel a little fall chill, I always chuckle to myself thinking about the “sweata weatha” exchange between Maya Rudolph and Amy Poehler from their SNL sketch. While much of the country is pulling on sweaters, downing pumpkin lattes, and decorating for fall, we’re still wearing flip-flops and kicking on the AC.
Walt Disney once said, “I think what I want Disneyland to be most of all is a happy place – a place where adults and children can experience together some of the wonders of life, of adventure, and feel better because of it.”
The holiday season is almost upon us, with Halloween coming up.
I’m certain that today every American who was an adult on 9/11 remembers what he or she was doing during the terrorist attacks.
Liberals and Republicans in Name Only hate the Taxpayer Protection Pledge with, as Diane Chambers once put it on “Cheers,” “the white-hot intensity of a thousand suns.” And there’s a very good reason for that.
Last month, I reported on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs teaming up with the Blinded Veterans Association, other government agencies and medical experts in Denver to discuss traumatic brain injuries and their affect on blindness. Several individuals discussed work being done to help veterans who sustained severe head wounds, which can often lead to a decrease in visual function and complete blindness.
When my children were younger, we often enjoyed reading books together. Among our favorites were a series of books written by Laura Numeroff and illustrated by Felicia Bond.
Freshman Republican Assemblymen Erv Nelson and Chris Edwards appeared on a local PBS community affairs television show recently and advocated for annual sessions of the Nevada Legislature.
Recently, I was reading an article in the Reno Gazette-Journal written by a University of Nevada, Reno business college staffer named Kylie Howe. It began, “I recently had the pleasure of touring Salman Ahmad through the entrepreneurship ecosystem in our very own Biggest Little City.”
Boulder City, as is well-known, was built by the Federal Government and the Six Companies to house the 5,000 workers who built Hoover (Boulder) Dam. It was a city that made history. However, when the celebrations and the jubilations at the dedication of the dam were over, the city settled down to being a city of people who went about their daily lives, but took a special pride in the strength and courage of its people and the accomplishment represented by the enormous dam and, by extension, Lake Mead, the largest man-made lake in the country.
It wouldn’t be the first time I was accused of going against the flow.
I’ve heard of deciding, deleting, debriefing, defrosting, detaching, deactivating, defrocking and even deplaning. But debunking? Never.
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Beginning this month, Boulder City residents will see a bump in their power bills.
During Saturday’s Nevada Press Foundation’s annual Awards of Excellence, the Boulder City Review came away with six awards in the rural category during a ceremony at Springs Preserve in Las Vegas.
Bouncing back from their first league defeat of the season, Boulder City High School girls soccer added a pair of wins this past week to build some momentum.
Six Boulder City residents are seeking either reelection or to become a new face on the Boulder City Council dais.
